The drive towards personalized medicine is seeing pharma move from patient stratification as a ‘nice to have’, to an essential feature of product development. Exemplified by the success of Herceptin, biomarkers promise to transform drug discovery, clinical development and diagnostics in the R&D process. This dynamic market, poised to reach a value of $33.3 billion by 2015, will continue to improve decision-making, clinical trial success rates and translational productivity.

Drawing on advances in genomics, translational medicine and clinical trial design, SMi’s sixth annual Biomarkers Summit held on 16th &17th January 2013 London brings you the latest developments from toxicity testing to compound screening and first-in-man studies to companion diagnostic assays, stay competitive with fresh insights from companies at the cutting edge of biopharmaceutical development. Attending will enable you to: